Stereogum — We've spoken about Scratch My Back , Peter Gabriel's anticipated Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection featuring reinterpretations of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Bon Iver, Elbow, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor,... more info

Nialler9 — Some, perhaps many of you will be aware that I write in the Irish Indo’s Day and Night magazine every Friday about web things: videos, music tips, sites, links and all good and funny stuff on the web. Well it all ends up on this blog every Friday ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Mr. Bon Iver himself, Justin Vernon, has become one of the best song writers of recent memory. This decade may be his to own, unless Sufjan decides that enough is enough, and gives Justin a worthy opponent. Before he got the world obsessed with his a... more info

The Late Greats — I got this email yesterday about The Folk Alliance. Which is like the SXSW for folk music. Happens in February. Attached to the email was the song below by Anaïs Mitchell. Anaïs has a new album coming out in March called Hadestown, which is a f... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Long before Justin Vernon grew a grizzly beard and secluded himself in a cabin creating the emotional music behind Bon Iver, he was a humble high school student at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Perhaps with a few more pimples and l... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Chorus.fm — *Bon Iver (http://www.myspace.com/boniver)* is releasing a live album (http://www.nme.com/news/bon-iver/48809) that will feature the band's songs as well as some jazzy numbers. Submitted by topher465 more info

NME — 'A Decade With Duke' also features Justin Vernon's high school jazz band more info

Stereogum — Welcome to the fourth annual Gummy Awards! The following results are based on thousands of Stereogum and Videogum readers' votes for the best of 2009's music, film, television, and Web videos. Because it's almost 2010, you guys also decided on ... more info

Undercover, Australia — Bon Iver singer Justin Vernon has released a jazz album, recorded with his high school jazz band, Eau Claire Memorial High School’s Jazz Ensemble I. more info